Dr Suresh Raghavaiah

Dr Suresh Raghavaiah is a Consultant Liver, Pancreas and Multi-Organ Transplant Surgeon. He completed his General Surgical training from St Johns Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, which is consistently ranked among the top ten medical institutions in India. He then proceeded to pursue a minimally invasive Hepato-biliary surgical fellowship at L'Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, under the guidance of Prof Brice Gayet, who is the pioneer of laparoscopy in liver surgeries. After completion of his training in Paris, his interest in transplant immunology led him to a two-year postdoctoral basic science research fellowship at the prestigious MAYO Clinic, Rochester, USA. While at MAYO, he focused his research interests on mechanisms of antibody production after transplantation and its role in organ rejection. He successfully developed a culture system for isolation and stimulation of antibody producing memory B cells from transplant recipients, which further helped to study the various immunesuppressive medications to decrease antibody production after transplantation. Following his research fellowship, he went on to successfully complete a multi-organ transplant surgical fellowship at MAYO Clinic. MAYO Clinic, Rochester is one of the few high volume transplant centers in the world performing about 180-200 Liver transplants (including living donor Liver transplants), 150-180 Kidney transplants and 20-25 Pancreas transplants per year. His training included all facets of transplantation including pre-operative assessment and management of patients with organ failure, living and deceased donor Liver and Kidney transplantation, deceased donor Pancreas transplantation and also the donor operations. He is also well versed in managing all potential complications arising after organ transplantation. Given his research background in antibody production, Dr Suresh specialized in transplantation of patients with antibodies against their donors, including blood group incompatible and positive cross-match transplantation. He has numerous international presentations and publications to his credit in this field. After returning to India in October 2013, Dr Suresh joined DMC & H as Assistant Professor in the Division of Hepato-biliary and Liver Transplant Surgery and is part of the DMCH Liver care team. His surgical interests include resections of Liver and Pancreas, surgeries of the bile duct and Liver, Pancreas and Kidney transplantation. He continues to pursue his research interests in "Mechanisms of antibody production after transplantation" and "Systems of deceased donor organ allocation". He aims to spearhead deceased donor organ donation and has already successfully conducted numerous organ donation camps in Punjab.